What do you consider posh?

[Fearlesssloth]

Is posh subjective/relative do you think or is there a universally agreed upon definition? I mean I guess everyone would say the royal family is posh right?! A work acquaintance called me posh today when I told her the street I live on and it made me think god if she thinks I’m posh where does she live?! Quite amusing as I’ve never been called posh before and the street I live on is mainly small 3-bed semis, mix of council and privately owned but not what I’d call posh, just not a council estate

Titles, country estate.

I get called posh as I like opera live cinema streams, even though mostly I am having a chippy tea or down the local pub.

My boss is posh. He’s never been to McDonalds. He goes skiing. His house has a basement kitchen. He owns a corgi. And a horse. Glyndebourne, of course. His daughter is called Arabella.

Nope. But my dad is a binman and I go to Glyndebourne.

Ladies that wear good quality matching underwear are posh, also people that don’t use foul language i feel are well educated and posh.

Private school, skiing, domestic staff.

I swear poshly, I'll have you know!

Most swearing sounds its very best in a cut-glass accent. The exception is 'cunt' which, for maximum efficacy, should be delivered loudly in an extreme East End accent.

Country estate, lodge house, head gardener, Joshua Reynolds on the walls.

proper posh like.

I was teased for being posh too, we weren't wealthy but we probably spent our money differently to others in the town and were well spoken. My mum was obsessed with us not developing a local accent. I have an accent but it's more of the general region rather than the specific town. When I moved to a city I was definitely not considered posh. I think its very subjective to be honest.

This and never having been to McDonalds would definitely say posh to me.

I went to private school (on a scholarship) and was one of the least posh people there.

I've often been called posh because I speak with a fairly neutral accent, because I don't miss out 'the' or 'a' and I know when 'the' is pronounced 'thee'. Personally, I just think I'm middle class.

I would say 'Posh and Becks' are not posh and neither are their children. Re the royal family, it's all they have. Joanna Lumley, most definitely is.

A funny thing happened in group therapy once (yes, really). A bloke went into a huge rant against me for being posh, born with a silver spoon in my mouth, never wanted for anything, etc. I am not posh by any measure.

I thought he'd perhaps confused me with another woman in the group, whom I perceived as actually posh. She, rather startled, said she wasn't very posh but she'd always thought one of the other men was. This man then said he was posh by some standards but, if you really wanted posh, look no further than yet another man in the group ...

😂 It turned out everyone judged someone else posher than them. The only person no-one thought posh was the guy who'd kicked it all off!

We have a minor public school near us. Macdonalds is packed with posh yoof from there circa 5 pm on a weekday.

Well I thought I was posh because of the way I speak and the food I like.
Then Angela Rayner became deputy prime minister and I read some comments and realised if you had a child at 16 everyone will forever think you are a huge peasant piece of shit.

I am a sociologist of socai class so there is a lot I could say....

In my workplace, all that is required is owning a dishwasher. The bar is low.

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Imo the RF are chavs

What’s the rf?

No way of saying this in a PC way... It's not about having money. It's about 'breeding'. Having a certain level of class. Being understated even if rich. Hahas help.

What is ‘socai class’? (Unless it’s a typo)
And the RF is the royal family. I refuse to capitalise it.

@Lumosh Royal Family..pp thought they might be considered posh

The women who don’t look out of place in expensive running gear and dry robes, carrying their reusable coffee cup, hair looks done but not done, kids all dressed in effortless clothes that are definitely all next or m and s!

Posh is certainly relative. A lot of people would call me posh because I ennounciate all the consonants in my words, and I say "loo" rather than "toilet" and we eat sitting up at the dining table rather than on the sofa with the TV on, and I listen to radio4.

However I am not as posh as my parents, who will change their clothes for dinner and have cloth napkins on the table with silver napkin rings and can sit through entire operas in German and appreciate it, which I really can't.

And they aren't nearly as posh as their poshest friends who have horses and landrovers and attend Henley and Ascot every year and have their genealogy in Debrets. - said friends are definitely posher than the Royal Family.